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 IWIPS2000
Baltimore, Maryland USA
    13-15 July 2000

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    An international workshop of
    industry, government and
    academic specialists in the
    globalization, internationalization,
    and localization of products and
    systems for multi- and
    cross-cultural use

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Call for Delegates
Schedule of Events
Paper Sessions
Breakout Forums
Workshop Dinner
Pre-Workshop Tutorial
Workshop Registration
Venue and Lodging
Sponsors
Useful Links
IWIPS Committees
Design by D. Day & E. del Galdo

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Call for Delegates

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You are invited to attend the Second International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems (IWIPS2000), on the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. Plan now to come in July 2000 to network with colleagues about globalization and localization in industry, government, and academia.

Paper sessions, an internationalization workshop, and breakout forums will be accompanied by invited speakers from across the spectrum of globalization and localization. Each day will begin with Continental breakfast, followed by single track sessions highlighting problems faced by those responsible for the design and development of products and systems for global markets. During breaks, at the opening reception, and at the harbor side dinner, you will be able to network with a wide variety of professionals in the field, from across the world.

Papers will be presented by specialists from seven countries, including Germany, France, Taiwan, Finland, Mexico, the UK and the USA. Breakout forums will provide delegates the opportunity to debate crucial issues in state of the art product and systems internationalization, with their peers.

The social program will capitalize on the workshop's location on one of America's premier redeveloped waterfronts. Ethnic and seafood restaurants, live theater, harbor cruises, shopping, and industry, science and art museums are close at hand.

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Schedule of Events

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Thursday, 13 July	14.00-17.00	Tutorial: Modern Software Internationalization Techniues	Xavier Calderon and David Johnson, Johnson & Associates Globally Integrated Software Services
	16.00-18.00	Welcome Reception	Hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, harpsichord
Friday, 14 July	08.00-09.00	Continental Breakfast	Coffee, juice, danish, muffins
	09.00-09.15	Opening Session	IWIPS2000 Committees
	09.15-10.30	Workshop Keynote	Xavier Calderon, Johnston & Assoc. Globally Integrated Software Services
	10.30-12.00	Theory, Frameworks, and Methodologies for Product and System Evaluation	See Paper Sessions for details; Discussant: Girish Prabhu, Eastman Kodak
	14.00-15.30	Case Studies in Internationalization of Products and Systems	See Paper Sessions for details; Discussant: Jennifer DeCamp, MITRE
	15.30-16.00	Coffee Break	Sodas and cookies
	16.00-17.30	Breakout Sessions	See Breakout Forums for details
	19.00-23.30	Workshop Dinner	See Workshop Dinner for details
Saturday, 15 July	09.00-10.00	Continental Breakfast	Coffee, juice, danish, muffins
	10.00-10.30	Announcements	IWIPS2000 Local Committee
	10.30-12.00	Internationalization Workshop: Globalization Skills	Deborah Brock Webb & Brenda Hall, Lone Star Globalization
	14.00-15.30	Policies, Strategies and Trends in Globalization and Design	See Paper Sessions for details; Discussant: Nancy Shaw, George Mason University
	15.30-16.00	Coffee Break	Sodas and cookies
	16.00-17.00	Guest Speaker	Andre Paul Pellet, M2 Limited
	17.00-17.30	Welcome to IWIPS2001, and Workshop Closing	Lynne Dunckley, IWIPS2001 Co-Chair, and IWIPS2000 Local Committee

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Paper Sessions

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Each session will conclude with remarks by a discussant, synthesizing, expanding upon and critiquing the papers presented. All papers will be presented in plenary (single track) format in the conference center at the lodging hotel. Abstracts for each of the papers listed below are available here.

FRIDAY, 14 JULY

10.30-12.00
Theory, Frameworks, and Methodologies for Product and System Evaluation

· T. French & A. Smith, University of Luton, UK. "Semiotically Enhanced Web Interfaces for Shared Meanings: Can Semiotics Help Us Meet the Challenge of Cross-Cultural HCI Design?"

· L. Dunckley (The Open University) & A. Smith (University of Luton), UK. "Cultural Dichotomies in User Evaluation of International Software"

· K. Roese & D. Zuehlke, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. "Method of Culturally Oriented Design for Technical Products"

· Discussant: Girish Prabhu, Eastman Kodak

14.00-15.30
Case Studies in Internationalization of Products and Systems

· M. de Souza & P.-H. deJean, University of Technology of Compiegne, France. "Cultural Influence on Design"

· E. Seidel, Sun Microsystems, "Discount Intercultural Usability on Netscape Communicator"

· K. Konkka & A. Koppinen, Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland. "Mobile Devices - Exploring Cultural Differences in Separating Professional and Personal Time"

· Discussant: Jennifer DeCamp

SATURDAY, 15 JULY

14.00-15.30
Policies, Strategies and Trends in Globalization and Design

· P. Bourges-Waldegg, CINVESTAV, Mexico. "Globalization: A Threat to Cultural Diversity?"

· D. Day, InContext Enterprises, USA. "Gauging the Extent of Internationalization Activities"

· P. Honold, Siemens AG, Germany. "Product Internationalization: Barriers and Strategies"

· Discussant: Nancy Shaw, George Mason University

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Breakout Forums

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Breakout forums will provide delegates the opportunity to debate crucial issues in state of the art product and systems internationalization, with their peers. This most popular feature of IWIPS'99 is being expanded this year to allow delegates to air more issues and to exchange more details about the trials, successes, and failures of product and systems internationalization.

Session 1:  Brenda Hall, BMC; Deborah Brock Webb, Dell
Session 2:  Usnish Sengupta, Atomic Energy of Canada; Jennifer DeCamp, MITRE
Session 3:  Red Bradley, Slippery Rock Univ.; Semantha Hobbs, Razorfish, UK

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Workshop Dinner

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Artwork courtesy of The Widget Works, Baltimore

19.00-23.30 Friday, 14 July 2000
Brown's Wharf Restaurant, Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland USA

The Workshop Dinner Friday evening is a centerpiece of IWIPS2000. This will be an opportunity to meet socially with friends old and new whom you have met professionally during the Workshop's first day and a half. Contacts made here can be expanded and enriched in the full day of internationalization activities yet to come.

Delegates will arrive at the dinner venue (center in the photo above, immediately left of the far end of the pier) via water taxi, across the beautifully restored Inner Harbor. Transportation and the dinner are included in IWIPS2000 registration fees. Delegates are asked to indicate a menu selection as part of their Workshop pre-registration. Options include Maryland crab cakes, filet mignon, and vegetarian. Alcoholic beverages are self catered. On the return trip, delegates will be treated to a truly magnificent view of the brightly lit harbor area at night.

Delegates may purchase additional dinner tickets for USD 50 (transportation included) as part of Workshop pre-registration.

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Pre-Workshop Tutorial

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David Johnston

MODERN
SOFTWARE
INTERNATIONALIZATION
TECHNIQUES
Xavier Calderon and David Johnston
Johnston & Associates Globally Integrated Software Services
14.00-17.00 Thursday, 13 July

Xavier Calderon

A special, fee paid tutorial will be presented immediately prior to Thursday's IWIPS2000 welcome reception. The fee is USD 100, payable directly to the tutorial provider, Johnston & Associates. See tutorial registration information (or contact Marianne Chase) for enrollment details. The tutorial registration form is available online.

Johnston & Associates specializes in helping clients to achieve global e-business transformation, by providing a seamless total solution for globalization, internationalization and localization based on innovative proprietary procedures, training and software suites that are unique in the industry.

Since 1993, J&A Global has presented tutorials on globalization strategies and management of the localization process, and internationalized software development for clients such as Caterpillar, BGF Industries, Alltel, Sun Microsystems, and the Localization Industry Standards Association.

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Workshop Registration

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Note:  Those who did not submit papers are welcome to attend

Workshop pre-registration is USD 150 (on-site USD 200). Included are the proceedings, entry to all regular events, two Continental breakfasts, coffee breaks, the Welcome Reception, and the Workshop dinner. Additional tickets to the Workshop Dinner are USD 50, transportation included. To register by fax or regular mail, please print, fill-in then mail the form to The Event Pro-SSSS, LLC (see form). The form is available in .pdf, .doc, and .html formats. (You may need to minimize your browser to view and print this form.)

Payment can be made using Master Card or VISA, check or money order drawn in US dollars. Credit card payments may be faxed or e-mailed. Money orders and checks must be mailed in sufficient time to ensure processing before the workshop. Workshop registration does not include the special pre-workshop tutorial.

Delegate packets will be available in the registration area on the following schedule: Thursday, 13 July 16.00-18.00; Friday, 14 July 08.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00; Saturday, 15 July 09.00-10.00.

For additional registration details, please contact the IWIPS Secretariat. (Other inquiries may be sent to the General Chair.)

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Venue and Lodging

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The venue for IWIPS2000 will be the Days Inn Inner Harbor, three blocks from Baltimore's restored waterfront. Hotel rooms for delegates will be at the same location. Guest room bookings are to be made directly with the hotel, not with the IWIPS Secretariat.

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Sponsors

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Lattanze Center @ Loyola College
Executive Studies in Information Technology

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Useful Links

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Regional Attractions International Airport Mass Transit

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IWIPS2001

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3d International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products & Systems

Next year's workshop will be held 11-14 July 2001 on the Walton Hall Campus of The Open University, one of the world's leading institutions of web based distance learning. The campus is situated in Buckinghamshire, close to the main M1 motorway and approximately 40 miles north of London. It also is approximately halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, and provides easy access to areas of interest such as Stratford and Warwick. The direct rail link to London takes between 40 and 80 minutes.

Contact Lynne Dunckley or Pat Hall, Workshop Co-Chairs, for details.

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IWIPS Committees

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 Design by Terry di Paolo, IET, The Open University

Donald Day, IWIPS2000 General Chair
  InContext Enterprises, Inc.
  249 Ayer Road, Suite 301
  Harvard, Massachusetts 01451 USA
  +1.978.772.0001 (voice), +1.978.772.6907 (fax)

Executive Committee

Girish Prabhu, Chair	Eastman Kodak
Bill Bullock	Georgia Institute of Technology
Donald Day	InContext Enterprises
Susan Dray	Dray & Associates
Elisa del Galdo	Cambridge Technology Partners

Local Organizing Committee

Donald Day, Chair	InContext Enterprises
Jennifer DeCamp	Mitre Corporation
Sharon Laskowski	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Emile Morse	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Laurette Simmons	Loyola College in Maryland
Doug Tuggle	The American University
Gregory Wilt	Bell Atlantic

    International Program Committee

Elisa del Galdo, Chair	Pia Honold
Dean Bruton	Alfred Kobsa
Bill Bullock	Aaron Marcus
Apala Lahiri Chavan	Christine Modica
Maxine Cohen	Michael Muller
Susan Dray	Gary Perlman
Sourin Dutta	Tom Plocher
Vanessa Evers	Girish Prabhu
Giorgio Faconti	Dominique Scapin
Marilia Faria	Constantine Stephanidis
Nektarios Georgalas	Ping Zhang

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